Desert of Belief Revisited

Neville's Inner Vision

From the moment Abraham rises early and places bread and water upon Hagar's shoulder, the scene is not about geography but about a state of consciousness. The wilderness of Beersheba is the inner space where perception meets lack and mistakes the absence for reality. When Hagar casts the child under a shrub and sits at a distance, she is gesturing an inner revision: the old form of care has exhausted itself; a new form of awareness waits. The bow-shot distance—sitting a good way off—becomes a symbol of the inner view we must cultivate: a perspective that looks beyond the imminent death of the seen to the life of the unseen I AM that sustains all. The weeping is the correct movement of feeling when belief clings to scarcity; yet feeling is a compass, not a verdict. The truth is that your supply never truly departs from your consciousness, only from your identification. When you align with the I AM, you do not need a miracle; you remember that water is always within your awareness, and the child—and all potential— is restored in imagination.